For a long time, the actor was unaware that he had a daughter from a youth romance. More than thirty years ago, she sought him out and today they have a very close relationship. The unusual thing is that the story lasted a long time hidden.
Eastwood's intense love life, which includes two marriages and multiple serious and casual romances, has been the subject of revealing reports, but there has always been a chapter from the time when he was an unknown that has not been fully clarified.
It was whispered in Hollywood about the strange circumstances in which he would have conceived a child with a stranger when he was twenty-something. The creature, it was said, was given up for adoption by his mother, whom the actor never saw again.
The story turned out to be true and the long-lost daughter, Laurie Murray, was photographed in public for the first time with the actor, during the debut of his film The Mule, in 2018, which was seen as a public acknowledgment that he is her father.
The episode seems taken from a film script, commented the English chronicler Louise Boyle. In 1952, Eastwood was struggling to make his way into the movies with difficulty. He went from audition to audition, but he did not convince any director and he only got insignificant roles.
Around the same time he was engaged to Maggie Johnson, his first wife, but he was also in a romantic relationship with a Seattle woman whose name remains a mystery.
When the affair ended, she discovered that she was pregnant and did not inform Clint, instead giving Laurie up for adoption.
A friend of Laurie's told a tabloid she had the scoop on at the time, that her upbringing "wasn't the best, no privileges." Meanwhile, Clint remained unaware of his existence and established himself as one of the best actors and directors of the seventh art.
In the 1980s, Laurie became obsessed with finding her biological parents and hired a private investigator.
The inquiries were fruitful and when the detective showed her her birth record, she was shocked to discover that her mother wrote Clint Eastwood's name in her father's box.
The first thing she did was contact her mother, who told her that he was not interested in having any relationship with her.
The Magazine assures that it is not clear how he came to Eastwood, but the truth is that his attitude was very different from that of his mother.
"Clint was extremely receptive to Laurie and to the situation," the Magazine informant told him, who also revealed that from then on he developed a very close relationship with his daughter, who inherited his athletic spirit and running skills. Golf.
The source reported that the protagonist of Dirty Harry usually spends holidays like Thanksgiving with her or goes on vacation.
At the Los Angeles premiere of The Mule, Laurie posed with Clint's seven other children, from five different mothers.
When reporters asked her name, she replied: Laurie Eastwood. In fact, the Magazine continued, she also gets along very well with her brothers and with Dina Ruiz, the second ex-wife of her father.
There is no shortage of those who maliciously think that she approached Eastwood for the money. It is known that, in addition to being a star in Hollywood, he has built a fortune of 375 million dollars, according to TheRichest.com.
But the Magazine witness flatly dismisses it. "Laurie and her family are wealthy in their own right, so that's not the case."
Indeed, after studying at the University of Washington and working as a teacher, she married Lowell Thomas Murray III, from a patrician family in the wealthy town of Lakewood, Washington.
There, he runs the century-old and prosperous investment firm Murray, Pacific.
That affords the Murrays luxuries such as a mansion in town and another home at The Hideaway Golf Club in California, where Clint is often invited, as well as the Tacoma Country & Golf Club in Washington, or his summer retreat. vacation in Maui, Hawaii.
The wedding of one of them, Kelsey, was in Mission, his California estate, while that of his brother, Lowell Thomas IV, known as LT, took place at the Tehama Golf Club, in Carmel, California, from which the actor also owns.
